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From: Justin Clacherty <justin@redfish-group.com>
To: paul@mawsonlakes.org
Cc: "proclus@gnu-darwin.org" <proclus@gnu-darwin.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Sfd] FOSS, Science, and Public activism
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:26:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45033F93.2040204@redfish-group.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc9bf44d0609071533r10bc5c5cl940088ead9669c4f@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Schulz wrote:
> Rather than make use of the mtd drivers for Linux (for whatever reason), they
> ship their own binary flash modules for Linux. This is used by both
> the bootloader
> and the modified linux kernel. This makes is (nearly) impossible to look into
> various hardware  related issues on this platform eg.
>   
Had some problems with this myself.  The proprietary boot loader is 
annoying...

I believe they've open sourced the mtd driver now in this "[PATCH 04/06] 
CM-x2xx: MTD" patch to the arm-linux list.

Justin.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060701220824.1EC396B0FDD@gnu-darwin.org>
2006-09-07 22:33 ` [Sfd] FOSS, Science, and Public activism Paul Schulz
2006-09-09 13:05   ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-09 22:26   ` Justin Clacherty [this message]

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